Unfortunately, Canadian teen arrested for stealing tax data with Heartbleed

Canadian police have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him in connection with exploiting the Heartbleed bug to steal taxpayer data from a government website.

In what appeared to be the first report of an attack using a flaw in software known as OpenSSL, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said this week about 900 social insurance numbers and possibly other data had been compromised as a result of an attack on its site.

The suspect, Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, was arrested at his home in London, Ontario on Wednesday and faces criminal charges of unauthorised use of computer and mischief in relation to data.